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For months I had the problem with theÂ interaction on myÂ Twitter account, because I have to see how to handle English and Serbian conversation onÂ someÂ propper way.

The problemÂ is in the fact that whenÂ I want to more interact in Serbian language, a lot of non-Serbian speaking followers will not understand theÂ statusses, andÂ itÂ could beÂ very boring toÂ them. I experienceÂ myself the same issue with some persons with aÂ multilingual Twitter accounts I follow, and often I miss something important from those people.Â The reason is -Â I did notÂ have enough attention regarding a lot of tweets in other language(s).

3 odgovora na Multilingual Twitter or not?

I’ll skip the part about ‘very influtenial’ and just state: many ppl know me and some hate me 😉

I’ve seen ppl do the ‘2 account thing’.

In the beginning I tweeted in english as there were few Germnans on Twitter (Dec 2006 😉 ). Then I drifted more and more towards Twittering in German, specially in replies.

I also asked my (rather many) US-Followers, if they minded my tweeingt in german.
They seemed to rather enjoy the challenge of decoding that (Can’t say that about Serbian, though 😉 )

Some ideas:
– If you reply in serbian to a Serbian I do not follow, I will never see it. (Twitter changed this some time ago., you will only see @replies to ppl that you already also follow)
– If you twitter your non-replies in English, many Serbians will still understand (and might reply in Sermian and You pick your language for the reply…)
– I had very few Germans complain that I tweeted in English (some found it haughty, but They probably did now know that the majority of my followers only speaks English and does NOT unfollow because I tweet German sometimes)
– When you tweet about Computers in German it is 80% English anyways 😉

The problem is in the fact that I started my Twitter account to be mainly in English, but when many people from Serbia started to follow me, they wanted interaction, and they said several time – I do not have enough @replies in Serbian. When I started to have more conversation in Serbian, I noticed that some of non-Serbian followers unfollowed me. I had a plan to try second twitter account for some time, and you made me did it faster 🙂